April 20, 2011

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On the heels of Andrew Breitbart cooperating with a Daily Caller article accusing Glenn Beck of stealing conservative journalists’ content without attribution, he tells the New York Observer’s Kat Stoeffel some of the source of his beef.

According to Mr. Breitbart, fellow tea partier Glenn Beck first joined him in editing and eviscerating [Shirley] Sherrod's 2010 NAACP speech on the radio, before publishing the unedited version on his website, discrediting Mr. Breitbart on television and calling for his apology.

"Next thing I know, I'm under complete attack without the support of Glenn Beck, who I thought was somebody I could count on," Mr. Breitbart told the Transom. "He threw me under the bus."

Back when Kenneth P. Vogel and I reported last month on the Beck site’s surprising takedown of the editing of NPR sting video, Breitbart offered a cryptic hint about this back story.

Breitbart said mainstream media outlets have created a double standard for O’Keefe wherein they are free to cut and edit videos with impunity, but they question his edits.
“I’m looking at this mostly as a diversion, because at no point do any of those edits make somebody sound like they’re saying something different than what they’re saying,” he said. “I kind of consider it to be a series of straw men.” He said he “found it very interesting” that Beck’s site chose to critique O’Keefe’s video but refused to elaborate.

Sherrod has brought a libel suit against Breitbart and two co-defendants in Washington, D.C., that Breitbart’s lawyers argued in filings Monday should be either dismissed or moved to California.

Beck doesn't do the right and good. He's a weird doomsdayer/conspiracy theorist and I'm very glad he's leaving FOX.
Protecting America from the liars and hypocrits on the left is too important a business to allow the kind of distrations that he creates.

No, when the controversy first surfaced about Sherrod; Glenn did not comment. Breitbart is lying. He's trying to throw Glenn under the bus.
Andrew Breitbart is finished with his career. He's an angry idiot who never takes responsibility for his own actions.
What he did to Sherrod was terrible and he should pay!

One can call Mr. Breitbart a patriot and a journalist, but his tactics are anethma to the telling of the truth. His method is to twist words so as to reinforce his preordained disgust with the subject. That would seem to rise to the standard of malice, which is the bedrock of libel.

And that incident was around the same time that Beck was launching his Blaze website...what better way to get customers than to discredit the competition.
And BIG websites are Blaze competition.
Why not just go toe to toe in an honest fashion, much better than employing underhanded tricks, especially when Beck and Blaze had the full scoop on Sherod, yet chose to sit on it--and actively threw AB under the bus. $$ was beck's motivator here.

Posted By: Bill Orton | April 20, 2011 at 02:47 PM "His method is to twist words so as to reinforce his preordained disgust with the subject. That would seem to rise to the standard of malice, which is the bedrock of libel."
Are you kidding me? The Liberals/Progressives/Dems do this ALL the time. Their Leader is Obama. They add one little detail though the "Emotional" crisis to any discussion..and the "Emotional" Pain they feel... I say get over it...

Posted By: Posted By: Bill Orton | April 20, 2011 at 02:47 PM "His method is to twist words so as to reinforce | April 20, 2011 at 03:07 PM